Thursday, March 3, 2011
Frankenstein
The beginning of the book Frankenstein was kind of confusing and hard to follow. The letters Robert was writing to his sister Margaret had me thinking is was going to be this gay sailor writing his siter throughout the whole book. Robert was sad one moment and happy the next, I wasn't really sure if he wanted to be on the voyage or not. He saved a mans life and that man ended becoming something Robert loned for, a friend. Victor wanted to create something like himself. "I should attempt the creation of a human being like mysellf or one more simplier organization.(Shelley 31) So he created the monster, but he didn't know that the monster would act as he did. "How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I endeavored to form?(Shelley 34) The monster haunted Victor and his family. Victor thought he would fight the monster but he didn't, the monster killed his wife Elizabeth on their wedding day. By the end of the story everyone ended up dieing. I think the creation of that monster was very crazy, it took a intelligent man to create it though. The story was interesting after i got past the letters Robert was writing his sister Margaret.
Gullivers Travel
In the stroy Gullivers Travel, Johnathan Swift uses Gulliver, the yahoos and the Houyhnhnms to show the way people are in the world. I think the author may have been a little crazy himself. To me he uses Gulliver as the middle man. Gulliver is not exactly like neither ther yahoos nor the Houyhnhnms and dosen't look like neither of them. He does have something in common with both of them. The yahoos are hairy animals with no tail like apes, and are uncivilized. They were talked about like humans. They are ruled off emotions. The Houyhnhnms were a group of horses, animal like cfreatures. They were civilized and more like Gulliver than the yahoos. They rule and are educated and honest.The way Gulliver acted once he had been gone and the way he felt about humankind, the longer he was away really reminds me of people today. Some people move away or experience a different way of living and start to think badly about the the people they use to be around. The story was very interesting to me, because I can see Gullliver as a person in society today.
Frankenstein
The beginning of the book Frankenstein is interesting.My mind really wondered while reading these letters Robert wrote to his sister margaret. Is Robert gay? Why didn't his sister ever write him back? I think its very interesting the way they find the man . They were stuck between ice and when the ice freed the ship, they saw that they were closer to land than they thought. Robert always told his sister that he wanted, well the one thing he was missing was a friend. After the man he found was in the ship a while he begin to think of the man ass his friend. Robert didn't think he would find a friend. " I said in one of my letters my dear Margaret, that I should find no friend on the wide ocean, yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart."(Shelley 15) After reading that it has me thinking maybe just maybe Robert is not gay but lonely.
Frankenstein
The monster seems to mimic Victor very often in the story. More so of wanting a female companion. " You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathetic necessary for my being. This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse" ( Shelley, 98.) He sees his relationship with Elizabeth and realizes that he is lonely and wants a female for himself.
The monster insists that Victor create a companion. " Shall each man, find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?"(Shelley, 116.) He feels abandonment from Victor and he wants someone that won't leave him. The monster explains to Victor that if he creates a mate/spouse he will leave and travel to an island far away so he will not hurt anyone anymore. Victor believes the monster and agrees.
Victor travels to England to create another being He soon stops his work and realizes that is his unable to trust the monster. He believes that they will marry. have children, and damage more lives. Victor doesn't feel he can take that chance, so he destroys his work. This upsets the monster which he threatens him. " Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. I will watch the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom. Man, you shall repent of the injuries you inflict...It is well. I go; but remember that I shall be with you on your wedding night."" (Shelley, 116.)
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Frankenstein 2
One might say that Victor made some pretty bad or skeptical decisions throughout the book. One of these decisions would of course be to create Frankenstein. This proved to be not only a very risky situation, but also a very dangerous situation. The "monster", Frankenstein, haunted Victor and his loved ones.
With that being said, one could say that Victor is crazy or stupid, however others might say that he, Victor, is a brave soul. They might say he is brave to take on such an unknown, daunting task that many people would not take on. Either way one might look at it, one might be correct in assuming or thinking this. What can be said for sure, is that this mysterious experiment caused much grief and pain for Victor and his family. For this monster affected not only him, but it affected those around him too, especially those very close to him.
On his wedding night, Victor just knew he would face the monster and they would fight to the death. However this did not happen as he thought it would. Just as Victor had told his wife to go to bed he heard, "a shrill and deadful scream," which deeply concerned him since he had not yet seen his monster (Shelley 135). This is what Victor had to say when he heard the scream, "As I heard, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fibre was suspended; I could feel the blood trickling in my veins, and tingling in the extremities of my limbs." (Shelley 135). This shows his complete shock of what just happened, and it also shows just how detailed Mary Shelley writes. Clearly Victor thought he would be fighting the monster, but instead the monster took Victor's wife's life. Victor never saw it coming until it was too late. He was so adament about finding and destroying the monster, that he told Walton to continue his search for the monster after he was dead.
With that being said, one could say that Victor is crazy or stupid, however others might say that he, Victor, is a brave soul. They might say he is brave to take on such an unknown, daunting task that many people would not take on. Either way one might look at it, one might be correct in assuming or thinking this. What can be said for sure, is that this mysterious experiment caused much grief and pain for Victor and his family. For this monster affected not only him, but it affected those around him too, especially those very close to him.
On his wedding night, Victor just knew he would face the monster and they would fight to the death. However this did not happen as he thought it would. Just as Victor had told his wife to go to bed he heard, "a shrill and deadful scream," which deeply concerned him since he had not yet seen his monster (Shelley 135). This is what Victor had to say when he heard the scream, "As I heard, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fibre was suspended; I could feel the blood trickling in my veins, and tingling in the extremities of my limbs." (Shelley 135). This shows his complete shock of what just happened, and it also shows just how detailed Mary Shelley writes. Clearly Victor thought he would be fighting the monster, but instead the monster took Victor's wife's life. Victor never saw it coming until it was too late. He was so adament about finding and destroying the monster, that he told Walton to continue his search for the monster after he was dead.
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